Pan-lifter



(No Model.)

T. o. ANDRUSY su T. J. NEWTON.

A 'PAN LIFTER.

No. 572,187. Patented Dec. 1, 1896.

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THOMAS O. ANDRUS AND THOMAS J. NElVTON, OF ALBANY, VERMONT.

PAN-LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,187, dated December1, 1896. Applicatiome@ september 3,1896. serial No. 605,162. ntomas.)

litters for removing hot utensils from stoves.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction oflifters and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient deviceadapted for removing hot utensils from stoves and for turning orotherwise changing the position of utensils on a stofve.

A further object of the invention is to provide a lifter capable ofreadily adjusting itself to a receptacle or utensil and adapted to graspreadily and securely a pie-plate, bowl, pan, or other receptacle, andcapable of engaging the bail of a pot, kettle, or analogous receptacle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a lifter constructedin accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showingthe same applied to a pie-plate.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding partsin all thefigures of the drawings.

l designates a bar provided intermediate of its ends with a longitudinalslot 2, in which a lever 3 is pivoted at a pointintermediate of itsends, and the slot extends from the center of the bar l to a pointwithin a short distance of one end thereof. At opposite sides of theslot and at a point intermediate of the ends thereof the bar l isprovided with perforated ears 4, through which passes a pivot 5forsecuring the lever to the bar. The ends 6 and 7 of the bar l arecurved downward and the end 6 is provided with a jaw 8, located beneaththe barl, extending transversely thereof and consisting of asubstantially horizontally disposed plate or flange, preferably segmental and adapted to engage under the bottom of a pie-plate, at oneside thereof, for supporting the same. `The jaw S, which may be eitherformed integral with'the bar l, as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, or constructed separate from it and riveted to the same, istapered or beveled toward its inner edge to enable it to he readilyinserted under a pie-plate. The curved end 6 also forms ahook and isadapted to engage the bail of a pot, kettle, or analogous receptacle toenable such vessel to be readily lifted off a stove. The other end ofthe baris curved downward, and is provided at its inner face with teethor corrugations 9, forming a jaw, and itis preferably bifurcated orforked to spread it to increase its gripping action.

The upper portion of the lever 3 forms a handle and its lower portion isslightly bent below the pivot at l0, and its upper portion is curveddownward and inward and is provided with a jaw 11,-constructed similarto the jaw S and cooperating with the same. The jaws S and ll areadapted, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings, toengage the bottom of a pie-plate and support the same. The outer convexedge of the lower curved end of the lever is provided with teeth orserrations, forming an outerjaw, which coperates with the jaw 9 of thebar when the device is yemployed as a pair of pincers for engaging theinner and outer edges of a bowl or other receptacle or utensil to enablesuch vessels to be readily carried from a hot stove.

lVhen the device is employed as a pie-plate lifter or turner, theoperator takes hold of the handle end of the lever and the weight of thepie-plate upon the jaws S and l'l holds the same firmly in engagementwith it, and when the device is used as a pair of pincers for lifting abowl, jar, or analogous receptacle the operator grasps the handle end ofthe lever and the adjacent portion of the bar, as will be readilyunderstood.

It will be seen that the device is adapted for carrying or turningpie-plates, that it is capable of firmly engaging a bowl, jar, orsimilar receptacle and of enabling the same to be carried or turned, andthat it is also adapted to receive the bail of a kettle or otherreceptacle, so that such untensil can be easily moved when hot Withoutthe hand of the operator coming in contact with the same.

W'hat we claim is-- l. A device of the class described comprising a bar,provided at its ends with inwardlyextending jaws, and a lever pivotedintermediate of its ends to the bar, having one end located between thesaid jaws and provided with inner and outer jaws coperating with thejaws of the bar, whereby the device is adapted to engage the upper edgeof a bowl or analogous utensil, and is capable of receiving orsupporting and gripping a plate, sub- Stantially as described.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a bar, having its ends 6and 7 bent downward, the end '7 being provided at its inner face with ajaw, the jaw 8 mounted on the end G of the bar and disposedsubstantially horizontally, the lever pivoted intermediate of its endsto the bar, extending below the same and provided at the outer face ofits lower end with a jaw, arranged to coperate with the jaw of the end 7to form a pair of pincers, and the jaw 1l located at the inner side ofthe lower end of the lever, disposed substantially downward and inwardand provided at its 35 outer face with teeth to form a jaw, and a jaw l1disposed at the lower end of the lever, substantially as described.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as in the presence of twowitnesses. j

v THOMAS O. ANDRUS.

THOMAS J. NEWTON.

Vitnesses:

M. B. OHAFEY, AGNES O. CHAFEY.

our own we have hereto aixed our signatures 4o i

